It’s STUPID problems which are annoying, not “problems”

“Problems” are opportunities

Stupid problems are fucking problems

 

Fundamentally “STUPID PROBLEMS” are FALSE problems

= their ROOT CAUSE is UNDERNEATH, hinting to a DIFFERENT PROBLEM

=ADDRESSING the UNDERLYING is the REAL aim

And NOT treating symptoms

 

Thus when solving STUPID problems, there’s a sense of POINTLESSNESS,

when you consciously or subconsciously know this to be true, know this to be pointless

 

STUPID problem is by nature unpredictable — because you DON’T PLAN for STUPIDITY

-by definition you don’t plan for stupidity. Your plan predicts LOGICAL STEPS

-And NOT stupid steps

 

This UNPREDICTABILITY in turn RUINS the fucking FLOW of everything else

You’re DISTRACTED from realising the MAIN PLAN, by that stupid problem

So you get annoyed that things are NOT moving forward — but backwards

 

AND this in turn also ruins your “FLOW STATE”

The work becomes more tiring, more emotionally challenging, less cognitively efficient, performatively efficient

OPPOSITE of the flow state, when things happen effortlessly, naturally, and at peak efficiency, peak performance

 

This ALSO segues into the problem of LOW REWARD HIGH COST

REAL problems are worth solving because they mean REAL REWARDS

If reward was high and problem was easy — it would have been solved already

So ONLY problems worth solving are the HARD problems — because those are the only problems which offer HIGH REWARDS

The HARDER the problem — the HIGHER the reward

STUPID problems are the opposite — they offer least reward for MOST annoyance

 

and finally,

the RESPONSIBILITY is MUDDLED, when there is NOT agreement as to WHAT IS THE CAUSE

E.g. if someone thinks STUPID PROBLEM is THE problem, and YOU should solve it…

… and you think that the CAUSE is underneath, and it’s someone else’s fault/responsibility

= you’re FUNDAMENTALLY DISAGREEING as to WHO IS RESPONSIBLE

And that’s of course annoying

Because you’d rather be solving real problems

NOT quibble with your boss, or your spouse, or your employee

 

This of course matters

We “avoid” problems. This is nonsensical. If you want to avoid problems — kill yourself. If you want to live and THRIVE — find hard problems

What we should do is understand what problems are STUPID,

And RUTHLESSLY ERADICATE this stupidity from the equation

 

How to eradicate this stupidity?

That is best done by building a STRONG foundation — so that stupid problems don’t spawn from your ignorance

Next by doing everything extremely conscientiously, professionally, PROPERLY, with UTMOST CARE

This is how you avoid stupid mistakes — so that you can focus on REAL problems.

Finally you need a good plan. A good plan is plan you can REALISE. If you can’t even stick to the plan — you don’t even learn if you failed because it was impossible, or because your plan was poor, OR because you simply didn’t stick to the plan in the first place

Make a dumb plan and you’ll be solving dumb problems — problems you didn’t anticipate in the plan. And eventually one of those will derail you. And you’ll make some excuse. There are NO excuses — there are only reasons — and you should have PREDICTED all the variables in your plan. INCLUDING the EXISTENCE of unknown variables

Finally you TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERYTHING. Because even if you have distaste for stupidity and ignorance and carelessness and disorganisation and haphazardness — others don’t.

So you either remove them as variable, or improve them. Both are done by taking responsibility for their own shortcomings. If their problems affect you — it’s now YOUR problem. Therefore you take responsibility

 

Finally,

in the worst case scenario, if something is indeed STUPID by nature and INTRACTABLE — you just accept it.

You accept it — and build powerful BUFFERS and GUARDRAILS — to contain that nonsense

You extremely temper your expectations

And you never delude yourself that you DO have control over it — UNLESS you actually do

Because it’s that false hope which causes frustration

 

But obviously best get rid of STUPID problems altogether,

Solve them once and for all

Or have someone solve them once and for all

Or get rid of that variable

And if you’re annoyed by some problem — it’s your fault

And actually it’s great news

If you wondered what was holding you back — now you know

You’re not solving serious problems, like an engineer

You’re spinning your wheels, because you were careless, unintelligent, unstrategic, irresponsible and ignorant